Fig. 1

Growth of PA14 in whole blood from a severely burned patient enhanced expression of hepP and zbdP. RNA samples obtained from PA14 that was grown for 8 h at 37 °C in LB broth (LBB), whole blood from a healthy volunteer (BHV), or whole blood from a patient with severe thermal injury (BTI) were used in RT-qPCR reactions as described in Methods using primers listed in Table 2. a Expression of hepP; b expression of zbdP. Values in a and b represent the means of triplicate experiments conducted on three independently obtained samples ± SEM. ****, P < 0.0001